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Even then, health officials refused to hand over files to the police and they had to subpoena medical notes and compel the doctors to give evidence against Neal in court.

In the South Australian case, health officials were warned two years go that Stuart McDonald was knowingly spreading HIV.

McDonald may have deliberately infected as many as a dozen men with the disease since moving to Adelaide about eight years ago but it was not until last month that he was ordered to take a psychiatric examination and stop having unprotected sex and advertising for sex on the internet.

McDonald is currently undergoing assessment in Glenside Psychiatric Hospital.

While doctor-patient confidentiality must be protected, it should not take precedence over the greater public good.

This is where the civil rights lobby loses the plot every time - from defending the right of alleged terrorists to have protected communications, to the right of indigenous men to brutalise women and children in the name of traditional culture.

In living memory, sufferers of infectious diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and tuberculosis h...

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